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Yeah this is a great point and its a lesson the entire US economy has completely forgotten. The last decade - really the entire period after 1980 - is one big

Yeah this is a great point and its a lesson the entire US economy has completely forgotten. The last decade - really the entire period after 1980 - is one big credit orgy. We really really really need to learn how to live within our means again and stop our debt-fueled overconsumption binge. The last few years have been particularly disgusting. People competed to get ever-bigger and fancier houses, cars, and various toys that they really did not need. Its time to start spending only what we earn as a nation, and individually.

electromagnetic 18y ago
Right now I'm desperate to buy a couple of games. One is Fable 2 because I loved Fable, but I'm not spending $60 on a game, I'm just waiting for the drop to $20 that inevitably happens. The other game is Fallout 3, I've been a huge fan of the series and I want to look at the 3rd, again I'm waiting for the drop to $20 however this doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon as they jacked up the price here in Canada from $60 to $70! I worked as a game reviewer for a number of years, and this is perhaps why I can value a video game much better than most other people. I reviewed many a game that I wouldn't ever justify spending $5 on. I mean it's like the extended warranty they try to sell you on games. Whenever I buy a DS game, they always ask me for extended warranty (It's their job, so I don't snap at them) but the SD cartridge a DS game uses is virtually indestructible through normal accidents. I've had one go through a washing machine with suds and everything in and I took it out, peeled the remnants of the label off and continued playing the game. I stepped on one on a concrete floor in boots (it fell out of my pocket when I grabbed my iPod, tangled up in the headphones or something) and no one would be the wiser. Yet they ask me if I want to spend $3 to insure something that'll survive me: if I fall off a skyscraper, if I fall in the ocean and drown, get hit by a car and numerous other things.
- electromagnetic 18y ago
  addendum: Something I forgot to add. I come from the UK, but I'm living in Canada. It would currently be cheaper to buy Fable 2 and Fallout 3 from the UK and have them shipped over; sadly the whole region code bullshit prevents this. Usually it means Europe pays like double the price of NA, however now that the economy is going to craps in the UK the prices for games have been put down* unlike Bethesda in NA who seem to think putting up the price of a game will make them more money.

electromagnetic 18y ago

Right now I'm desperate to buy a couple of games. One is Fable 2 because I loved Fable, but I'm not spending $60 on a game, I'm just waiting for the drop to $20 that inevitably happens. The other game is Fallout 3, I've been a huge fan of the series and I want to look at the 3rd, again I'm waiting for the drop to $20 however this doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon as they jacked up the price here in Canada from $60 to $70! I worked as a game reviewer for a number of years, and this is perhaps why I can value a video game much better than most other people. I reviewed many a game that I wouldn't ever justify spending $5 on. I mean it's like the extended warranty they try to sell you on games. Whenever I buy a DS game, they always ask me for extended warranty (It's their job, so I don't snap at them) but the SD cartridge a DS game uses is virtually indestructible through normal accidents. I've had one go through a washing machine with suds and everything in and I took it out, peeled the remnants of the label off and continued playing the game. I stepped on one on a concrete floor in boots (it fell out of my pocket when I grabbed my iPod, tangled up in the headphones or something) and no one would be the wiser. Yet they ask me if I want to spend $3 to insure something that'll survive me: if I fall off a skyscraper, if I fall in the ocean and drown, get hit by a car and numerous other things.

electromagnetic 18y ago
addendum: Something I forgot to add. I come from the UK, but I'm living in Canada. It would currently be cheaper to buy Fable 2 and Fallout 3 from the UK and have them shipped over; sadly the whole region code bullshit prevents this. Usually it means Europe pays like double the price of NA, however now that the economy is going to craps in the UK the prices for games have been put down* unlike Bethesda in NA who seem to think putting up the price of a game will make them more money.